Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share

Well it’s official now. Microsoft doesn’t have the complete iron grip on the computing world anymore. It still has a firm grasp, but it is weakening. This could be good or bad, depending on how much you like Apple. Or just hate Microsoft.

According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has dipped below 90% market share for the first time ever. Net Applications Inc is a monitoring company, who reported that Microsoft had reached 89.6% market share. The company is able to gather these statistics by seeing what type of computers are being used to visit various websites.

Microsoft also saw their largest share drop in two years, 0.84%. Previous down months, May 2008 and December 2007 had been 0.51% and 0.63%.

From a personal standpoint, I don’t understand it really. Most of the market share drop is from people flocking to Mac OS X. As someone who uses both I really don’t see a massive enough difference to make a switch. To me the only thing that Mac OS X is better at is in terms of graphic/web design work. For just about any other application, or usage Windows Vista or XP has worked just fine. The Windows Vista problems to me are way overblown.

I’ve had my new computer for a couple of months, with Windows Vista on it. I haven’t had one problem with performance, or compatibility issues. I’m not saying that Mac OS X is awful, but Vista is a fine OS and shouldn’t be dismissed by former Windows owners.